Presence movie ending: Steven Soderbergh’s thriller has 2025’s first great twist.

This article contains the presence of spoilers. Presence, Steven Soderbergh’s latest, is a tight 85-minute family story set in a single absolutely gorgeous foursquare suburban house. The Presence—more trapped energy than traditional ghost—watches as Chris tries to get his wife to care that their daughter is barely functioning in the aftermath of the death of her friend Nadia from a drug overdose; as their son’s friend Ryan secretly seduces their daughter; and as Rebecca buttonholes Tyler at the kitchen island and drunkenly tells her son that she’s closer to him than any other human being, and that it’s OK to do anything for the people you love. The first time Ryan drugs Chloe’s drink, the Presence reaches out and shakes the table, until her glass of OJ falls to the ground. Rebecca and Tyler—people who don’t enjoy feeling vulnerable—reject the psychic’s very presence in the house, but Chris tells Chloe he believes her.